Salman Rushdie earns a place in Queen's jubilee list, will be named 'Companion of Honour'

From her tiaras, hats and Hermes scarves to her Launer London handbags and even her umbrellas, the queen's style has been hyper-documented since her birth.

Young princess days, ascension to the throne and now, more than 70 years into her reign, she celebrates her Platinum Jubilee at age 96.

Her wardrobe from the get-go was a topic of national fascination with a layette sewn by her mother and grandmother, and a little help from underprivileged women throughout Britain.

With the tumultuous abdication of her uncle and the rise of her father to become King George VI, Princess Elizabeth became heiress presumptive.

During World War II, 18-year-old Elizabeth began to make more public appearances, training as a mechanic in early 1945 toward the end of the war.

The queen was, and remains, a practical dresser when necessary, but also glamorous in sparkly gowns when the moment beckoned.

Thousands in the U.K. sent in their ration coupons for Princess Elizabeth to use for dress materials.

That would have been illegal, so she saved up her own and asked the government for 200 extra, Holt told The Associated Press.

She settled years ago on skirts and dresses just below the knee, but her hemlines were sometimes an issue for senior members of her family.

Geetanjali Shree’s ‘Tomb of Sand’ is the first Hindi novel to win the prestigious International Booker. While Shree’s exquisite work tells the story of an 80-year-old woman who steps out of depression after her husband’s death to find new purpose in life, the author says that her literary win is a victory of many Hindi writers who came before her.

A doctorate in history, Shree’s penchant for infusing humour and word play into her writing has won over the Booker judges too, who called her work a ‘luminous novel’.

V S Naipaul or Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul placed India on the Booker map, way back in 1971 when he won the prize for his work 'In a Free State'. The Trinidad-born and Oxford-educated Naipaul is the first person of Indian origin to win the Booker. Published by André Deutsch, the winning work looks at alienation, disruption and racial tension in an unpredictable world through five connected tales.

Naipal, whose other notable works include ‘A House for Mr Biswas’, ‘The Enigma of Arrival’, ‘A Bend in the River’ among others, was also shortlisted, for his entire body of work, for The Man Booker International Prize in 2009.

Naipaul, with family roots in India, made his literary debut with the novel ‘The Mysterious Masseur’ in 1957. An intrepid traveller, his novels and reportage captured his journeys through the lens of a post-colonial society where identity and alienation in a multicultural world remained the central themes.

Ten years after Sir V S Naipaul’s win, it was Salman Rushdie who repeated the feat. Rushdie’s ‘Midnight Children’ bagged the Booker Prize in 1981.

And that’s not all.

The British-American novelist and essayist of Indian descent bagged serious bragging rights - after the iconic book went on to scoop the anniversary Booker of Bookers in 1993, and The Best of the Booker in 2008 on the prize's fortieth anniversary through a public vote.

A cocktail of magical realism and real events, the novel is set around the 1947 Partition and the independence of India. Considered among the finer reads in post-colonial fiction, Rushdie’s creativity managed to ruffle political feathers after then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi slapped a defamation suit.

In 2012, the novel found its way to the big screen with Deepa Mehta bringing to life a screenplay done by Rushdie himself.

In 1997 Arundhati Roy won the £20,000 ($ 30,000) Booker Prize for 'The God of Small Things.' With that she became the first Indian - previous winners V S Naipaul and Salman Rushdie both had Indian roots - to win the Booker, considered the ultimate prize for writers of the Commonwealth.

A story of love and death through the eyes of a set of 7-yr-old twins, it beat the other front-runners including Irish author Bernard MacLaverty's 'Grace Notes' and Madeleine St John's 'The Essence of The Thing'.

For Roy, the novel and the Booker acclaim came before she plunged herself into social activism taking up green causes and environmental damage.

Kiran Desai catapaulted to Booker fame in 2006 with her novel ‘The Inheritance of Loss’. At 35, Desai scripted history by becoming the youngest-ever woman to win the Booker Prize - later Eleanor Catton, 28, pipped her when she won for ‘The Luminaries’ in 2013.

Kiran, the daughter of noted writer Anita Desai, was born in Delhi and spent her early childhood in Mumbai before moving to the UK. ‘The Inheritance of Loss’, which won high praise from critics across the globe, was written over a period of seven years. Themed on migration, and shifting narratives of time and life, between past and present, it was her second novel after her first book, the critically acclaimed ‘Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard’.

Aravind Agida began his career as a financial journalist covering the stock market. The writer, in fact, wrote for TIME as he penned ‘The White Tiger’ on the sidelines, which became his debut novel, and bagged the Booker award, catapulting the author to international popularity.

The book paints a sharp contrast between the life in ‘modern India’ compared to its rural part, and shows how a person of underprivileged background can fall through the cracks of the system. While the Indian hardcover of the book sold more than 200,000 copies, it was later made into a film, featuring Priyanka Chopra and Rajkumar Rao.